Willy Brandt Quotes

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself.

The mere absence of war is not peace.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

Peace should be our future.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Peace is our passion.

Real peace is more than the absence of war; it is an absence of the causes of war.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Talking about peace might not be exciting... some say you don't eat peace, but without peace, you don't eat at all.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations .

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.